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list Michael Nemeth
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:16:19 -0400
Message-Id: <user-935929efdec5@xymon.invalid>


Henrik Storner wrote:
In <user-aad3c3f9111b@xymon.invalid> Michael Nemeth <user-609d3fab5b2d@xymon.invalid> writes:

 
I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done  on setting  up  fail over  servers?
I got my server back and backed up all my custom and config files so I can now reproduce my setup.
But a true fail over server is needed.
   
The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
box.

 
Well no rsync  for hp-ux 11.  I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have another HP  set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server.
Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds  would work . Anyone know  if this is so?
Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes I CAN write a script to do the drop and
Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the enable/disable gui could be extended to include
a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will  be admining this too.
   
It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
implement it.

 
Great!  in 4.1.2 ?
Disk test be nice  all  three number could be put in a graph:
$ /usr/bin/df -Pk
Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol4       19532     5183    14349    27%   /home00
   
The "used" and "Capacity" columns are currently tracked. Do you want to
track the "Available" count also ? It *can* be done by a bit of math
in the graph definition.

Yes,  for disk1 type  graphs ,  actually maybe a "new" disk2 type that would graphs all three per FS .
Its a management pleaser  thing.
Some one ask about  having required fs ,  what the status on this.
   
It's in 4.1.2.

There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice feature was it alerted you to large changes.
Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm -rf *!!
   
Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.

OK . It IS useful .  Here is the link to watcher :  http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html
How about move or duplicating the tip:
What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
on the web page in the head or footer ?
   
Took me a while to find it.  These are a BIG selling point for hobbit; visual impaired and color blind  people are
provided for!  Big issue for large corps!
   
I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to customize the templates any way you like :-)

 
Fair enough.  But how as a separate  help item ;  legend .  I would prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page.  IM ALWAYS ask   what they  are.  
Regards,
Henrik

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